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"Sex identity" can mean either how a person categorizes their own physical sex,<ref>"LGBTQI Terminology." [http://www.lgbt.ucla.edu/documents/LGBTTerminology.pdf]</ref><ref>"LGBT resources: Definition of terms." [http://geneq.berkeley.edu/lgbt_resources_definiton_of_terms]</ref> or it can mean how other people categorize that person's sex.<ref>"Trans, genderqueer, and queer terms glossary." [http://lgbt.wisc.edu/documents/Trans_and_queer_glossary.pdf]</ref> | "Sex identity" can mean either how a person categorizes their own physical sex,<ref>"LGBTQI Terminology." [http://www.lgbt.ucla.edu/documents/LGBTTerminology.pdf]</ref><ref>"LGBT resources: Definition of terms." [http://geneq.berkeley.edu/lgbt_resources_definiton_of_terms]</ref> or it can mean how other people categorize that person's sex.<ref>"Trans, genderqueer, and queer terms glossary." [http://lgbt.wisc.edu/documents/Trans_and_queer_glossary.pdf]</ref> | ||
Some [[activism|activists]] advocate for society to cease assigning gender at birth. For example, author and lawyer [[wikipedia:Martine Rothblatt|Martine Rothblatt]] wrote: "As we gradually free ourselves from stamping newborn babies as one sex or the other, gender expectations will become self-defining and the full cultural liberation of all people can occur at last."<ref>{{cite journal|title=Gender Manifesto: a selection from The Apartheid of Sex |journal=TV/TS Tapestry Journal |date=Spring 1995 |number=71 |page=33 |url=https://archive.org/details/tvtstapestry7119unse/ |publisher= International Foundation for Gender Education}}</ref> In 2020, several MDs published an opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine stating that "Sex designations on birth certificates offer no clinical utility, and they can be harmful for intersex and transgender people. Moving such designations below the line of demarcation wouldn't compromise the birth certificate's public health function but could avoid harm."<ref name="ShteylerClarke2020">{{cite journal|last1=Shteyler|first1=Vadim M.|last2=Clarke|first2=Jessica A.|last3=Adashi|first3=Eli Y.|title=Failed Assignments — Rethinking Sex Designations on Birth Certificates|journal=New England Journal of Medicine|volume=383|issue=25|year=2020|pages=2399–2401|issn=0028-4793|doi=10.1056/NEJMp2025974}}</ref> | |||
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